From c8c22ad49b0501f9e3c35ee79bc8bf94e05eba66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:14:19 +0200
Subject: Modified the Makefile to copy additional libraries a plugin might
 provide

---
 PLUGINS.html | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'PLUGINS.html')

diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html
index 0869c38f..51424ce3 100644
--- a/PLUGINS.html
+++ b/PLUGINS.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <center><h1>The VDR Plugin System</h1></center>
 
-<center><b>Version 1.4</b></center>
+<center><b>Version 1.4.1</b></center>
 <p>
 <center>
 Copyright &copy; 2006 Klaus Schmidinger<br>
@@ -192,6 +192,16 @@ of only lowercase characters and digits, it will only follow the symbolic links,
 should lead to the current version of the plugin you want to use. This way you can
 have several different versions of a plugin source (like <tt>hello-0.0.1</tt> and
 <tt>hello-0.0.2</tt>) and define which one to actually use through the symbolic link.
+<p>
+If a plugin needs library files of its own, it can copy them to the <tt>lib</tt>
+directory following the naming convention <tt>lib<i>name</i>-<i>library</i>.so.0.0.1</tt>,
+where <i>name</i> is the name of the plugin, and <i>library</i> identifies the
+plugin's additional library. If the plugin <tt>hello</tt> would require the two
+additional libraries <tt>foo</tt> and <tt>bar</tt>, the  names would be
+<p>
+<tt>libhello-foo.so.0.0.1</tt><br>
+<tt>libhello-bar.so.0.0.1</tt>
+<p>
 
 <a name="Initializing a new plugin directory"><hr><h2>Initializing a new plugin directory</h2>
 
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